Garment hanger



Oct. 28, 1952" 2,615,603

F. L. DURR GARMENT HANGER Filed Dec. 26, 1950 INVENTOR; BANK L Dun/a v ATTORNEY Patented Oct. 28, 1952 Frank L. Durr, New York, N. Y. Application December 26, 1950, Serial No. 202,659

Claims. (oi zzs ss) This invention relates to. a garment hanger having means for holding a shouldered garment in combination with means for hanging trousers or other supplemental garments outside'of the shouldered garment and to the trouser hanging means itself.

The ordinary suit hangers include a hook or other suspending means with two shouldersupporting members diverging downwardly from the center of the suspending meansand' connected at the lower end with a tie bar or cross bar on which one or more pairs of trousers or skirts can be suspended. In hanging a suit on such a hanger the trousers must be placed on the cross bar first and then the coat can be hung over the shoulder supporting members whereas when a suit is removed from the body of the wearer the coat is first removed and the trousers are removed at some later time. Similarly in'the process of dressing the trousers are put on first Whereas they can be removed from the hanger only after the coat is removed. The awkward situation has been recognized before and several inventors have devised hangers which would permit one to place the garments thereon in the order in which they are removed from the person. Such hangers however are complicated devices or are so constructed as to take'up a considerable amount of room and not produce a compactly hung suit.

An object of this invention is to provide a hanger having means for hanging a shouldered garment thereon and additional means for holding a supplemental garment in close proximity to the shouldered garment without disturbingthe press of the shouldered garment. I

Another object of the invent'ion is to provide a hanger having a front and aback portion and having means in the back thereof for holding an auxiliary garment. such as a pair of trousers.

Another object of the invention is to provide a hanger having means for hanging a shouldered garment thereon in combination with a means for hanging a supplemental garment which means are so arranged that the said garments can be placed on or removedin any desired order.

Another object of the invention is to provide an attachment or accessoryfor an ordinary tyl iv of garment hanger, which attachment is adapted to hold a supplemental garment outside of the shouldered garment.

These objects and others ancillary thereto are the shoulder supporting members, crossing at the H front and center of the hanger and being attached to the main tie or cross bar of the hanger.

v The additional cross bar may bebuilt into the hanger when it is formed or may be formed sepf' arately and attached to an ordinary. hanger v which has a cross or tie bar.

.The additional device may be made of wire can also be formed of plastic material. 1 [The invention will be more fullydescribed by reference to the following drawing, inwhichq- 1 Figure 1 shows a front view of a clothes'hange'r made according to the present invention. 1 j Figure 2 is a side'view'of the hanger of Figure 1'. Figure 3 is a rear view of the clothes hanger of Figure 1 with a coat and a pair of trousers held therein.

Figure 4 is a viewof an accessory adapted to be attached to an ordinary hanger to change it to the type of hanger of Figures 1-3.

Figure 5 shows an ordinary hanger with an-.

other slightly different tached thereto.

As shown in the drawings, thehanger hasa hook means In for suspending the hanger' on a stationary supporting means such as 'a.-r0dor hook in a clothes closet, and two shoulder holding members II and I! which diverge'downwardly from the hook 10-. The han'gerof Figures 1-3 is made entirely of wire and preferably of one piece of wire. The lower endsof theshoulder members H and I2 are therefore bent inwardly toward each other'to form horizontal portions 'type of accessory at- 13 and M of the horizontal tiebar' or cross bar;

These horizontal portions l3an'd [4 are twisted together at 15 tofix the position of: the shoulder members I l andl2 although the wire canalso be secured together in other ways such .as-by spot welding or by auxiliary tie wires. I

From the ends of the twisted area IS the. wire then is bent upwardly and backwardly torform the crossed supports l6 and IT for theihorizontal garment suspending member 20. The crossed bars [6 and I! may be welded or twisted at the crossing point but. inzthe modification of Figures 1-3 it is preferred not to attach them-at the crossing points as they have more springand flexibility when not attached: The hanger, because of l the addition of the horizontal garment or trouser suspending member 20, will have a front and a back, the crossed supports l6 and [1 extending fthe crossedsupports IB I!v andthe curvedmortions 18 and l 9 permit the trousers to settle close to the coat. By not securing the crossed supports [6 and l! at the crossing points the springiness is greater and more evenly balanced. As seen in Figure 2, the cross supports I6 and I! extend outwardly from the front center portion of the hanger at the area where the collar of the shouldered garment fits about the hanger. The upper portion of the cross members it and Il may press against the lapels or folded collar of the shouldered garment to hold the shouldered garment in place especially after the trousers or other supplementary garment is suspended on the horizontal member 26. While the trousers are held close to the coat, in Figure 3, the said trousers will not muss up any of the pressed structure of the coat (such as a rolled lapel) as would happen if the trousers were suspended at the front of the coat.

The device of Figures 1-3 can be made from one piece of wire, for example, by forming the horizontal support 20 first, and then bending the other portions of the wire into the shape shown without adding the twist at IS. The twist at l may then be applied by holding the pairs of wires at the points where the cross members l6 and IT project upwardly from the portion l5 and twisting by inserting a rod at the intermediate portion and rotating the rod.

Figure 4 shows an attachment for changing an ordinary hanger into a hanger which is adapted to hang trousers at the back of the shouldered garment. This figure shows a device with a horizontal support 30 upon which to hang the supplementary garment. The support 30 is connected by curved members 28, 29 to cross supporting members 3|, 32 which are secured together as by twisting at 25 and continue in diagonal members 33 and 34. The diagonal member 33, 34 each end in two loops 2!, 23 and 22, 24. The are formed between each pair of these loops 2!, 23 and 22, 24 constitutes a means for holding and clamping the attachment to the cross bar of an ordinary type of hanger. The loops 2|, 22, 23, 24 may be used for holding other Wearing apparel if desired or they may be omitted or re- .placed by a simpler form of clamping means.

Figure 5 shows an attachment similar to that of Figure 4 attached to a hanger 40. The hanger 40 has a hook 4|, shoulder supports 42, 43 and a tie bar 44. The attachment has the horizontal bar support 30 connected by curved portions 28, 29 to diagonal members 3!, 32'. The diagonal members 3|, 32', are held together by a horizontal twist 25 instead of the horizontal twist 25 of Figure 4. The lower portions 33', 34 of the diagonal members end in loops 2|, 23 and 22, 24 just as in Figure 4. As shown the horizontal garment supporting bar 30 appears at that part of the hanger which becomes the back thereof and the remainder of the attachment is at that area which becomes the front.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is:

1. In a garment hanger having shoulder supporting members connected together at the top and connected by horizontal bar means at the bottom, the improved construction which comprises a pair of crossed supporting members extending upwardly from spaced portions of said bar means, crossing in front of the area between the shoulder supporting members and the horizontal bar means and then continuing over the top of the shoulder supporting members to the back of the hanger, and garment supporting means connected with the ends of the crossed supporting members at the back of said hanger.

2. A garment hanger comprising shoulder supporting members connected together at the top and connected by horizontal bar means at the bottom, and integrally connected with said horizontal bar means a pair of crossed supporting members extending upwardly from spaced portions of said bar means, crossing in front of the area between the shouldersupporting members and the horizontal bar means and then continuing over the top of the shoulder supporting members to the back of the hanger, and garment supporting means connected with the ends of the crossed supporting members at the back of said hanger.

3. In a garment hanger having shoulder supporting members connected together at the top and connected by horizontal bar means at the bottom, the improved construction which comprises a pair of crossed supporting members extending upwardly from spaced portions of said bar means, crossing in front of the area between the shoulder supporting members and the horizontal bar means and then continuing over the top of the shoulder supporting members to the back of the hanger, and a horizontal garment supporting bar connected with the ends of the cross supporting members at the back of said hanger.

4. An attachment for a garment hanger which has shoulder supporting members connected together at the top and connected by horizontal bar means at the bottom, said attachment comprising two hook members adapted to be fitted about spaced portions of the horizontal bar means of said hanger, a pair of crossed supporting members extending upwardly from said hook members and adapted to cross in front of the area formed by the horizontal bar and shoulder supports of said hanger, means securing the crossed supporting members together at the crossing points, said crossed members further being adapted to extend up and over the said shoulder supporting members of said hanger, and garment supporting means connected with the ends of the crossed supporting members.

5. An attachment for a garment hanger which has shoulder supporting members connected together at the top and connected by horizontal bar means at the bottom, said attachment comprising two hook members adapted to be fitted about spaced portions of the horizontal bar means of said hanger, a pair of crossed supporting members extending upwardly from said hook members and adapted to cross in front of the area formed by the horizontal bar and shoulder supports of said hanger, said crossed members further being adapted to extend up and over the said shoulder supporting members, and a horizontal garment supporting bar connected with the ends of the crossed supporting members.

FRANK L. DURR.

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